Re: posting

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 01:17:50AM CEST, Tom Furie <tom@furie.org.uk> said:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:12:49PM +0100, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote:
> 
> > Not being funny but, both Thunderbird and Google mail auto trim the emails
> > for me... If your mail client can't support that, then sucks to be you?
> 
> Interesting. How do they know what you don't want to include in your
> reply?
> 
> If you're talking about them auto-hiding quoted text then that's not
> trimming. The unwanted text is still there and still has to be shunted
> over the wires.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tom

If you select part of a message before answering it, quotation is trimmed to the selected part. 
At least with Thunderbird.